provoke
Example Sentences
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The council recently selected Whitegates Park as the new site, but the decision provoked protests from local campaigners over the potential loss of greenspace.
From BBC
But support for Kast increased in recent years as voter demands shifted from tackling inequality and improving pensions, which provoked violent, nationwide student-led protests in 2019, to tackling crime and immigration.
Primal Scream said the film was a "piece of art" that was meant to provoke debate, not hate.
From BBC
Rivers’s signing had provoked a freakout over NFL development—Is America’s quarterback shortage this bleak?—but there was something to be said about having someone who’d done this before, many times.
But Milliken, backed by the UC regents, resisted calls for confrontation, wary of provoking retaliation against the nine other system campuses also under investigation.
From Salon
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